Re: [Monotone-devel] BZ2 & signatures

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> I wonder: why the sources are only available as .tar.gz?
> Using .tar.bz2 they compress down to 3.5 MiB instead of 4.6 MiB.

Tradition?  (Does it matter?)

> If the choice was mine, I'd also put on the server a detached GPG
> signature of the file.
> It can't hurt and I can actually verify Graydon's signature through 7
> different 4 people chains ;-)
> text: http://tinyurl.com/nsuza
> image: http://tinyurl.com/oagwr

Laziness? :-)

(Also, I'm the one that rolls releases these days, and I don't have a
verifiable gpg key anyway...)

-- Nathaniel

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